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Because doctors are finally beginning to recognize early menopause symptoms in younger women, more and more women are being diagnosed with early or premature menopause. As a result, women who are experiencing infertility or are dealing with menopause symptoms at a young age no longer have to wonder why. Generally, we are unable to determine a cause for early menopause symptoms in younger women. This is frustrating for women as it makes it difficult to accept and deal with this new stage of life. Sometimes though, there are very obvious causes of premature or early menopause.
Early menopause symptoms are essentially the same as those of signs of menopause naturally. Women commonly suffer from night sweats, hot flashes, insomnia, headaches, and joint or muscle pain. Body shape changes are also common, causing you to put on weight around the abdomen. Additionally, water retention and menopause commonly go together.
Early menopause symptoms that women can experience are emotional ups and downs, including anxiety, depression, cravings, and forgetfulness. The reason for night sweats symptoms are triggered by the fluctuation of hormones in the body during menopause. In particular, estrogen levels reduce dramatically during the onset of menopause, causing a variety of changes in the body’s functions.
Early menopause symptoms tend to be associated with more severe menopause symptoms than menopause occurring after the age of 45. Because early menopause is often due to illness, surgery, or genetic issues, there is a rapid decline in the amount of estrogen (known as “estrogen crash“) in your body. This causes you to enter menopause more quickly than other women. Estrogen crash can cause extreme hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, and depression in some women. In a survey of early menopause symptoms, 100% of women who experienced surgical menopause experienced a number of menopause symptoms in quick succession. 90% of these women complained that their symptoms were severe and lasted more than 8 years.
Unfortunately, there are no early menopause symptom cures. Menopause information has progressed by leaps and bounds over the years, though. It is suggested that most women who have undergone early or premature menopause seek out hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or, alternatively, natural hormone replacement therapy. Menopause symptoms will be very sudden and severe, especially after surgery, and can be lessoned by taking appropriate doses of estrogen. If oral medication is too difficult to take directly after surgery, estrogen patches that release hormones through the skin can be used to help lessen symptoms.
Then there are very early menopause symptoms, however, not all that typical. Very early menopause symptoms can be caused by a lot of things; this includes the following:
1. Premature ovarian failure. Your ovaries failed, therefore, resulting in early menopause symptoms. The common reason for this is because the woman’s body is not responding to the signals to ovulate any longer.
2. Surgery or cancer treatments. A woman can get early menopause if she has subjected herself to certain treatments, usually of cancer.
3. Diminished Ovarian Reserve. This usually occurs to women before the age of 40. This stage is termed as the diminished ovarian reserve.
Very early menopause can be a problem, but only if you make it so; don’t let it make you feel any less of a woman than you are now. A woman is not determined by her monthly cycles, but her ability to face life and all that comes with it. Facing this challenge with a good attitude and menopause information makes you stronger than ever.
How are early menopause symptoms confirmed as menopause? The most important test used to diagnose premature menopause is a blood test that measure follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). FHS causes your ovaries to produce estrogen. When your ovaries slow down their production of estrogen, your levels of FSH increase. When FSH levels rise above 30 or 40 mIU/mL, it usually indicates that you are in menopause.
Menopause is not a stage necessarily relegated to elderly women. Early menopause symptoms are more common than most women realize - it affects about 1% of women between the ages of 15 and 45. Early menopause symptoms can occur for a variety of reasons, but in the end it leaves an imprint on the lives of all of the women it affects.
Im new to this sight and have done a lot of reading on early menopause. I found that every symptom listed online I have. I have had 2 surgerys on my ovaries, once when i was 20 & had the left ovary removed, the other when I was 30 and only had a dermoid cyst removed so I still have my right ovary. My mother finished menopause at 44 and had 3 children. I was wondering about HRT and not sure if that is the way to go but I feel like my entire body is changing and it’s effecting my mind mostly. I have no children and had a FSH test done, im waiting for the results from my gyno. I find early menopause the worst!!!!
I am only 44 and was diagnosed last week with being extremely low in estrogen and with starting menopause. All the blood work results have proved this to be the fact. I am having a very difficult time dealing with major irritability, mood swings, agitation, insomnia, hot flashes and the list goes on & on.
I started pre-menopause at the age of 38. I am now 45. I have all those symstoms (now daily) along with getting my period every 28 days. I feel like I am being punished. The hot flashes , the agitation and the insomnia are probably the worst. The insomnia just makes the agitation worse as my patience is so low from lack of sleep.
My sister was finished with menopause at 47. I started having night sweats at 39. I’m 47 and I feel I’m on the back side of the perimenopause symptoms and may be finished with all of this by the time I’m 50
wow.. i really need to get to the dr.’s and get myself checked out.. im not really one to go to the Dr.’s, but i think i need too..
thanks for the great information!
This is all so confusing to me too...I’ve been away from fab40 because I thought I was going thru my PMDD episode, now I come across these menopause blogs and I can check off a lot of the symptoms listed here...How do I know which is which now?...so confusing..lol
I am praying for menopause! LOL Having been pregnant or nursing most of my adult life, I have escaped the monthly visits from Aunt Flo. I just want it over with. LOL
I have found that Plus alleviates the symptoms for me. Soemtimes I have to take more, but it is so worth it. I ran out today, and am not looking forward to the days I'll be waiting until my next shipment comes in. My family isn't either. LOL It is not a hormone replacement, but it provides phytosterols which are plant hormones, primarly from the Mexican wild yam. What this does is allow your body to balance itself, even during the changes of life. As a modulator, it helps regardless of whether the imbalance is progesterone or estrogen related.
It is actually the precursor for all hormones so can help with other issues as well. My mom took Synthroid for years. Her doctor was amazed but as he weaned her off, her thryoid tests remained normal. They told her when she had thyroid surgery that she would have to take Synthroid for the rest of her life.
Got the results back from gyno on FSH results. She said im 9 and im not in menopause, which i already knew since i still get my period every month. I DEF have symptoms of pre menopause, i can feel it inside. If you dont know your body then thats a problem to me. Gyno said i could be depressed & seek therapy since Ive been feeling emotionally detached from myself and others. Prescribed me xanex and zoloft but i will only take if needed. This past period i was late 1 week and severly emotional, missed a day of work and sat home and cried. Maybe mid life crisis? Either way I will keep a chart from now on month to month but by far last month was the worst i ever experienced. Felt like i was in mourning.
I was finished with menopause by the time I was 27. It was devestating as I did not get to have children. But now I’m 44 and my husband and I love our lives. We love our nephews and niece and our cats! =) I did HRT for 10 years and was never so happy as I was when I stopped it!
I’m 41 and having all the pre-menopause symptoms as well. Major surgery at 37 started this course a bit early, but I love my life. Hopefully it doesn’t last forever...LOL
I’m new here and just bumped into this article... wow! it is exactly what I am going through and just this week my therapist thought i was so depressed he strongly suggested that I go into a “facility” to go away for a few days, have medical supervision and best of all get “drugged” that’s all I want so I don’t feel so sad and hopeless as I’ve been lately. The last time I saw my period must have been 5-6 months ago, I told my doctor’s assistant this and he had all sorts of tests done on me but I seem to be okay, it is just my thyroid levels that are very low and my depression doesn’t make it any better...It is very hard right now, I wish to end it all and get it over with. I’ve become a “hermit“, don’t go out unless is work and the weekly shopping to town at an early hour so I don’t have to face people, I quit going to church for I don’t want to be seen anymore... I’m way overweight (75+ lbs)... I just dont have the will to fight anymore... it is hard...but hopefully if I get drugs pretty soon(for depression) I’ll be part of this country’s statistics of zombies and maybe gain a few more pounds since that’s how it all started a few years ago...I better shut up for now... sorry!
Am afraid with menopausal this time, am only 37 and am still single....scared. want to see my sibling, hark hark hark
Started the night sweats (to the point where they wake me up at times) in my 30’s! You should know how many women laughed at me when I said I was peri. “You‘re too young!” they laughed. I am really really praying that this means I am almost done with mestruating, since I started bleeding at age 11. Have done much, much reading on the subject and been to dr’s.
I’m 44 years and the last 6 years I’ve had mood-swings, hot flashes, my period isn’t regular and more of that kind.
It started a few years ago when suddenly my period was one day pro month (wonderful!!), later on it changed every time. I never know when I will start bleeding and when I start I nearly die from the pain I have.
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First the doctors say the symptoms I had was because I was stressed (divorse, sack, 2 children with PDD-NOS) and later on it was because of my rheumatism.
Since a few weeks they say it can be my (pre)menopause.
But I know my mother, some of my sisters and my grandmother were also young with theire menopause.
I only hope it doesn’t take as long as with my mam (more then 10 years...........)
I am 47 and have awful perimenopausal symptons for two years now. The Migraines are terrible, and I have low estrogen from tests. I also have endometriosis for years. I am seeing my GYN finally for treatment. I am not sure what I will do! I kept putting it off. I guess I ignored it for awhile, but now it is really bothering me.
Wow, Nicoleb, thank you so much for your post. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 31 and I was/am devastated. I’m 41 and have never had a successful pregnacy and thus am childless. I have been on HRT since the full hysterectomy but recently had to stop due to lack of medical coverage. I totally crashed and now am trying to see if I can come off of HRT all together. Hard to believe and even harder to say out loud that I’m still dealing with the emotional effects. I’m so overweight now and just so unhappy with me but I’m determined to get back to me - work on a new and better me. Thanks again.
I will be 51 this month and had a complete hysterectomy. I was always under the assumption that when everything was taken, menopause would be quick and over with...not so! There are still night sweats, hot flashes, mood swings and for me add brain fog and lower metabolism, so a healthy diet, regular exercise of any kind, lowered stress levels are key.
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